Cotton-chopper.



No. 701,446. I Patented June 3, |902.

L. w. wooTEN.

COTTON GHOPPEB.

(Application vfiled Dec. 30, 1901.

(No Model.)

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UNITED Srnfrns LEWIS WV. WOOTEN, OF MOORE, .OKLAHOMA TERRITORY.

COTTONMCHQPPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Eatent No. 701,446, dated June 3, 1902. Application filed December 30, 1901. Serial No. 87,728. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEWIS W. WooTEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Moore, in the county of Cleveland and Territory of Oklahoma, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cotton-Choppers;v

tivelyinexpensive of production,and efficient in operation.

With this and other objects in View the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination, and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more fully described, and particularly pointed out in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan view, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal vertical sectional view on line :c of Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, 1 denotes the main frame of the machine, 2 the axle, and 3 the supporting-wheels. The forward ends of the side pieces of the main frame converge and are brought together and connected to a clevis 6 denotes handles connected to the main frame and projecting rearwardly thereof, and 7 denotes a shaft journaled in the cross-bars 8 and 9 of the main frame and provided with a crank 10 and with a pinion l1. The latter meshes with a drive-gear l2, fixed to the axle 2. 13 denotes the shank ofthe chopping-blade 14, said shan'kbeing jourf naled upon the crank l0 and having its upper end guided by a laterally-proj ectiu g guidearm 15, which is secured to one of the handles and is provided with a hole or aperture 16,

through which the upper end of the shank 13:

projects. As the machine is drawn along, the gear-wheel 12 will transmit its motion to the shaft 7, and thus laterally oscillate or vibrate the choppersblade.

The forward end of the machine, if desired,

may beprovided lwith scrapers 1G and the rear end with cultivatorshovels 17. `The frame may also be provided with an auxiliary attaching device 18, one end of which has a hooked engagement with `the frame and. the other end of which is passed through one of the holes of theclevis 5.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, the construction, mode of operation, and advantages of the invention will be readily understood without requiring an extended eX- planation.

Various changes in the form, proportion, and details of construction may be made within the scope of the invention without departing from the spirit or sacricing any of the advantages thereof.

.Having thus described myinvention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In a cotton-chopper, the combination with the main frame the forward end of which is provided with a clevis and an auxiliary attaching device having one end attached to the clevis and the other end to the side of the main frame, of an axle j ournaled in the main frame and provided with a gear-wheel, a crank-shaft journaled in bearings in the main frame at points at the rear'of the axle and provided with a gear-pinion meshing with said gear-wheehia chopper-`blade provided with a shank which is journaled upon said crank, and a guide-bracket fixed to the frame of the machine above the crank-shaft and provided with a hole through which the shank of the chopper-blade projects, scrapers 16 secured to the forward end of themachine and shovels 17 secured to the rear end of the machine, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my handin presence of two subscribing witnesses. j

Lewis w: wooTnN. Witnesses:

C. O. GooDING, LOU M. STRATTAN. 

